Weekly Round Up

Top 5 stories of the week

🚨 Big 8's pay gap

ASIC v Star - lawyer breach, Harvey hits tennis, AI kills privilege

Australia's top-tiers are closing the gender pay gap

Most top-tier firms narrowed their gender pay gaps — but the deeper problem at play.

🚨 Firms ditch timesheets

Harvey tags in, privilege waived, Big Four gender gap, Morgan Stanley axes jobs

Harvey plugs into Microsoft Copilot as legal AI's distribution war heats up

The $5bn legal AI startup embeds itself where lawyers already work, while Microsoft signals it won't build its own legal vertical.

10 Ways to Win Your Clerkship (in 2026)

Law firms sell time. Should they be selling software?

Law's next revenue stream isn't legal fees. It's tech.

Hall & Wilcox bolsters bench with double partner hire

Government procurement and employment specialists join in Canberra and Brisbane

🚨 Firm culture revealed

Courts' secrecy, CVs dying fast, hopeless claim?